Billets near Moulle.
After all the recent rain, a fine, dry day
Company commanders were taken by bus six miles north-east to
Volckerinckhove for a three-day course in preparation for the planned
forthcoming offensive actions.
Cpl. Willie Nichols
(see 1st June) was
promoted Sergeant.
Pte. Henry Jarratt
(see 24th July) was again
in trouble; on this occasion for ‘talking on 3pm parade’. He was reported by Sgt. Arthur Kilburn Robinson (see 24th July) and was
to be confined to barracks for two days on the orders of Lt. Herbert Sparling (see 1st July).
Pte. Cain Rothera
(see 5th May) was reported
by CSM Pattison as “absent off 2.40pm parade”; on the orders of Lt. Arthur Poynder Garratt (see 13th August) he was to be confined to barracks for three
days.
A week after returning to France, Lt. George Stuart Hulburd (see 8th
August), who had been in England since being taken ill in April, re-joined
the Battalion.
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Lt. George Stuart Hulburd
Image by kind permission of Paddy Ireland
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Cpl. George Wallace
Fricker (see 8th June)
was posted back to England, having been accepted as a candidate for a
commission. He would have a period of leave before beginning his officer
training.
Pte. William Hissett
(see 29th June), serving
in France with 9DWR, departed for England on ten days’ leave. He would return
late from his leave and be ordered to forfeit two days’ pay and undergo ten
days’ Field Punishment no.2.
Pte. Alfred Spencer (see 5th
June), who was on attachment at the permanent base of IV Corps at Albert,
having suffered from shellshock two months previously, was appointed Acting
Lance Corporal.
Pte. John Gaunt (see 2nd July 1915), who had
served with 1st/6th DWR, was discharged from the Army,
with the award of the Silver War Badge, on account of wounds; the details of
his service are unknown but, according to newspaper reports, he had “spent many
months in hospital”. He was the brother of Sgt. William Edmondson Gaunt (see 5th
July), who was in England on an officer training course.
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